Uralic languages
The
Uralic languages are a
family of about 20 related
languages spoken by circa 20 million people in eastern and northern
Europe and in northwestern
Asia. The best known members belong to the
Finno-Ugric subfamily; the other subfamily is called
Samoyedic. Merritt Ruhlen (A Guide to the World's Languages, Stanford UP, 1991) adds the
Palaeosiberian language,
Yukaghir as coordinate with Samoyedic and Finno-Ugric. There is some debate about a possible relationship between the family as a whole and the
Altaic languages; a few scholars also consider the Uralic languages to be related to the
Indo-European languages, see also
Nostratic language.
The most spoken members of the family are Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian.
Some characteristic features of these languages are:
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